Assig-noe of one-half



(80 Model.)

F. w. TOLLEY.

BUTTER AND LARD CUTTER.

Patented Dec. 5,"1882.,

and are set rather'wider apart at top than at represents a front elevation of a cutter conerly clear themselves by making the incisions with a wooden handle, D but the outer end PATENT OFFICE.

rEEDEEIoK w. TOLLEY, 0E HUDSON,

NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE'HALF TO EMANUEL VOLK, or SAME PLACE.

BUTTER AND LARD CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.268,575, dated December 5, 1882.

' Application filedJ'une 22,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. ToL- LEY, a citizen of theUuited States of America, residing at Hudson, in the county of Columbia and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Butter and Lard Gutters, of which the following is a speciiication, reference being had therein to the accompanyingdrawings.

This invention relates to an improvement in grocers and provision dealers, and which will also be found very useful in families for cutting and removing butter, lard, tallow, and similar material from the jars, tubs, or kegs in which it has been packed, in clean-cut, smooth, and uniform pieces, expeditiously and without waste; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts of said cutter, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 strncted according to my invention; Fig. 2, a side view of the same when in use; and Fig. 3, a plan view of the same, also shown in use. Fig. 4 is a front view, showing a single knife.

In the form shown in the drawings, A represents a 'thin'horizontal blade, provided with a front curved cutting-edge, a, and having two thin, narrow standing blades, B, provided with cutting-edges I) I), also preferably slightly curved. These blades are inclined backward,

bottom, and have their back edges slightly wider apart than the cutting-edges of the same, for the purpose of causing the blades to propwider than the blades are thick.

Attached to the center of the back of the horizontal blade is a shank, (J, slightly curved, which may be either :made separate from the blade and attached thereto by. riveting, brazing, or in any other convenient manner, or it may be made in one piecewith the blade, if preferred, and may be round in cross-section or flattened, as desired. The shank is provided of the shank may be bent to form a handle, if preferred, or the shank itself may be used as a handle. The handle or its equivalentshould same remark applies to the edges of the standbe arranged diagonally to the horizontal blade, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the hand will not come in contact with the. material being cut.

The invention is used in the manner clearly 5;

shown in the drawings-via, by inserting the cutting-edge in the butter or other article at a convenient distance from the edge of the tub or jar and forcing it toward the edge thereof, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and then. by giving a slight oscillating movement to the handle, (as indicated by the double-headed arrow in Fig. 3,) so as to bring all parts of the edge of the horizontal blade in contact with the tub or jar. A portion of the butter is severed at its bottom from the mass, and a slight vertical movement given to the handle will also sever the side edges of the portion from the mass, and the cut portion can be readily lifted out with the cutter.

The standing blades are set slightlyinclined, in order that the first piece of butter may be more easily lifted out, as the portion thus out will be slightly narrower at bottom than at top, and for the same reason it will more readily drop out of the cutter when the latter is reversed.

In forming the blade I prefer to make the cutting-edge of a curve of a radius slightly smaller than the curve of the inside of the tubs orjars usually employed in packing butter, although I do not wish to limit myself to this form, as a cutter having its cutting-edge straight could be usefully employed, and the ing knives. These standing knives may also be made vertical and parallel; ,but I much prefer them in the form shown, for the reasons above set forth.

nation of horizontal and standing blades, and

a handle arranged diagonally to the horizontal blade, substantially as and for the purpose having a convex edge and connected to the handle, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The combination, with the horizontal blade A and a suitable handle, of two standin g blades having their cutting and rear edges at different distances apart, substantially as described.

I 4. The combination, with ahorizontal blade, A, and a suitable handle, of two standing blades, having their cutting-edges inclined backward away from a line perpendicular to the plane of the horizontal blade,substantially' as described.

5. The cutting implement herein described, consisting of a horizontal blade, A, having a convex edge and two standing blades, B, inclined backward from the edge of the bladeA, set wider apart at the top than at bottom, and 25 having their rear edges wider apart than their cutting-edges, the shank O, and the handle D, all constructed and arranged substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I'affix my signature in 0 presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK W. TOLLEY.

Witnesses:

GILEs H. ONEIL, ABRAM LEGGETT. 

